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A43966	The sting of death and death vnstvng delivered in two sermons in which is shewed the misery of the death of those that dye in their sins, & out of Christ, and the blessedness of theirs that dye in the Lord : preached on the occasion of the death of the truely noble and virtuous Lady Mildmay / by Leonard Hoar ...	Hoar, Leonard, 1630?-1675.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2200; ESTC R21593	30,404	33

but God takes them to himself Body and soul are taken assunder as the pieces of a Watch out of order not to be lost but to be set together again that they may goe better God is a carefull and faithful keeper of those precious Reliques and will bring them together the word of his Truth is for it Ezek. 37.12 O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves What then though they part asunder since neither of them part nor are disunited from ●he Lord Jesus O happy parting to leave this Cell this crazy earthly ●●bernacle for a glorious Mansion and to embrace a dear Saviour It s but like going to bed at night the body rests and the soul keeps in action while the night time of the grave lasts in this world the bodies of the Saints sleep in Jesus but their souls are in bliss The Souls of just men may bespeak their bodies as the Lord Jesus did his Disciples Joh. 14.3 It is exp●diens ●●r you that I goe away and if I goe away I will we again and receive you to my self The Body like Onesinus is an unprofitable servant for the present Phil. v. 11. therefore departs for a while that it may be received for ever 4. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the body rot and consume and becomes loathsome yet it is but dissolved it is not destroyed As Christ told Martha Thy Brother shall rise again Joh. 11.23 so the body shall rise again hence the Apostle though he grants that the body doth dye yet it is no otherwise then as a fruitful seed dyeth that it may spring up again v. 36.37 of this Chapter Job 19.25.26 27. For I know saith Job that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth and though after my skin worms ' destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me God doth not intend to lose what he leaves behind in this world no but as he brought Israel out of Egypt so will he ransome us from the power of the Grave and redeem us from Death Hos 13 14. he will not leave an hair nor a broken bone nor a dust behind All that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth Joh. 5.28 29. Christ shewed a Type of it at his own Resurrection Mat. 27.52 c. And the Graves were opened and many bodyes of Saints which slept arose which shall be fully accomplished in all the Saints in the general Resurrection The Grave shall then be found to be a chamber of Repose and a bed of Rest Christ having made it so to the Saints And as for the soul of a child of God it shall not see corruption It s not so much as dissolved but released and set at liberty Sin here makes its motion towards heaven and its progress in grace flow The body is a weight pressing down but when Death shall rid us of this the souls motion and pass into heaven shall be quick and speedy like the Thief on the cross no sooner crucified and dead but glorified This day saith Christ thou shalt be with me in Paradise Let who will dream of the souls sleep they are asleep that think so saith Calvin No assoon as the vail of the body is removed we with open face behold the Glory of the Lord. The spirit shall return to God that gave it 5. The Sting of death is taken away in that all the dolorous accidents 〈◊〉 attendants of death are by Christ qualified sanctified What are pains agonves of Body but the putting down of this earthly Tabernacle i● order to the raising of a spiritual and everlasting Building the breaking off of our chains fetters in our being released hence While the bodies of the Saints are filled with pains their souls are filled with the comforts of God Our friends lament but Angels rejoyce though we must now part from them yet there is Gods Host the Life guard of heaven ready to accompany us thither Suppose a Saint going to his grave and the mourners by trains going in the streets could the departed utter a word would it not be that of Christ to the danghters of Jerusalem Luk. 23.28 Weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children 6. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the purposes of a godly man in death are destroyed yet his main purpose and his chief design stands and abides his main purp ose and design was to glorifie God and save himself his own soul Now he that hath walked with God that hath traced the wayes of holiness that hath studied the mysteryes of the Gospel that hath laboured and not fainted and that is found so doing that hath committed his soul into the hands of God and is able to stand at the appearing of Christ he doth not miss of nor lose his purpose I have fought the good fight I have finished my course saith Paul did henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness 2 Tim 4 7 8. What though men gather no more of the wealth of this world Heaven is inheritance enough What though they gain no more repute here Their Record is on high What if they attain not the end of their labours Yet their reward is with the Lord. What though their worldly affairs be discomposed if their eternal concerns be fixed What if their dayes be cut off since their work is done It would not avail a man any thing to win the world and lose his soul its profit enough if a man save his soul though he lose the world It was a sad thing for the Mariners to cast over their goods Acts 27.18 but when Paul told them that no life should be lost v. 22. they are comforted So here though we leave our stuff and lose our worldly labours yet our lives 〈◊〉 safe the main Chance is secured 7. The Sting of Death is taken away in that the Saints are dead ●●nd mortified to the world they glory in nothing more then in the cross 〈◊〉 Christ be which they are crucified unto the world and the world un●●●● them 〈…〉 11. Hence they enjoy this world as though they enjoyed it not 〈…〉 Hence while they live in the world and upon the neces●●ry com 〈…〉 they live above it Hence it s no hard matter for them to dye and 〈◊〉 out of the world The world will have no great miss of 〈◊〉 and I shall 〈◊〉 no great miss of it Things dead have no seeling or sence of any parting from each other Wicked men think the Saints not worthy to live in the world Acts 22.22 and God thinks the world not worthy of them Heb. 11.38 nor doe they esteem the world worthy to be desired the time past of their lives in this

THE STING OF DEATH AND DEATH VNSTVNG DELIVERED IN TWO SERMONS In which is shewed The Misery of the Death of those that dye in their Sins out of Christ and the Blessedness of theirs that Dye in the Lord. Preached on the occasion of the Death of the truely noble and virtuous The Lady Mildmay By LEONARD HOAR M. D. Sometime Preacher of Gods Word in Waustead Psal 49.14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling Eccles 2.13 14. But it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his dayes which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God Ver. 14. There is a vanity which is done upon the earth that there be just men unto whom it hapneth according to the work of the wicked again there be wicked men to whom it hapneth according to the work of the righteous I said that this also is vanity Isa 3.10 11 Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings Ver. 11. Wo unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Psal 18.14 For this God is our God for ever and ever and he will be our guide even unto death Rev. 2.10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Boston Printed by John Foster 1680. To Mris. Bridget Usher my ever honoured Aunt MADAM I Know you are no Stranger in the dayes of your Pilgrimage to the late and present rouling posture of the wheels of Providence you have seen the times tempestuous and perilous and God who is the great Soveraign hath seen good to bring an instance of the evil of this time home to your Person and Family It s good for your self with all other Relations that yet survive to look at the supream Disposer when the rongs of the wheels are high and dreadful to eye him him that sits upon the Throne When Israel was as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit it s he that called her to it Isa 54. There is no Staff of indignation in the hand of Providence but it is grounded in the eternal Decree And what if God willing that this or that or the other friend or relation be made as it were a gazing stook to Angels and Men through afflictions and reproaches Who shall reply It s lawful for him to do what he will with his own Mat. 20.15 Why dost thou strive against him saith Elibu Job 23.13 He giveth no account of his matters It s the duty of all friends to sanctify God in his soveraign Dispose and with Aaron to hold their peace not to repine or murmure at the dispensation of God to submit to his holy and soveraign will in this matter The great difficulty and that which is most studiously to be avoided is not to be scandalized nor to have our minds any wayes damaged or discouraged in the course of our obedience nor alienated from the Church and People and Servants of God when such instances occurr that men upright with God and walk close with him fall under such great afflictions not to think strange of the fiery Tryal nor the worse of holy obedience and the service of God this I say is a great and hard Task and when there are such accidents falling out friends receiving such deadly wounds in the house of their friends not to be exasperated nor violate the Rules of Charity but to rest in Love towards them is another hard Task This is the Task and duty incumbent upon you at this time and herein I know in some me asure as things have been circumstanced what need all that were nearly Related and dearly Affected to him that is gone I say I know what need they have of Caution It is a notable observation of Mr. Strong The will of man subordinated to the Will of God p. 289. There are as great shares of Satan and as great Judgements of God laid in Scandals as in any thing in the world besides And he adds It is an Observation much to be considered That if Satan would instil any evil pression into the hearts of men concerning any Truth of God I may adde a 〈◊〉 as well against any of the Wayes Churches Servants and People of God he doth usually bring it in by some providence of God that they take offence at As he instanceth in the Gaderens Mat. 8.31 The Devil desires to exasperate their spirits against Christ and he will doe it by drowning their hoggs I am very sensible in the Sufferings and Death of your deservedly honoured Companion and guide of youth there was that which except God give your self and all other friends much Wisdom and Grace to ballance their spirits the Devil may improve it to work a Prejudice of spirit against the Civil Government Churches Schools of Learning against the holy wayes and the Servants and Saints of God Pardon me Madam if I stay here knowing what a Narrow this is and earnestly request you for the Lords sake that you labour to guard your spirit and mind against this evil I know full well with what Magnanimity and undauntedness of spirit you passed through the gun-shot and the heat of the day but I beseech you don 't now stand at a distance from the Communion of the Churches and People of God lest Satan get advantage for we are not ignorant of his Devices The best Remedy against it is 1. A sincere meek and quiet submission to the soveraign holy Will of God this will quiet our spirits so that Satan can't disturb them All the motions of our souls are excentrick disordered till they come to this Subordination we are open to the storms and fiery darts of hell if not anchored in this Harbour 2. An intire and ardent Love to God his Churches Servants and People If Love be interrupted Satan has great Advantage of us Qui satis deligunt non cite offenduntur Salv. Epist 1. They that love much and enough will not be soon offended A brave Christ-like spirit it is to bury and pass by real and supposed injuryes and a great duty and concernment it is to live and dye in Charity If I mistake not it was your design in coming into this Wilderness that you might lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty And although you have met with so great a tryal as you have yet the Interest of God the Government the Order of the Churches the Truths and wayes the Servants and Saints of God and Communion with and in these is as sweet and precious as ever I would not be